Tag: Photo manipulation

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portfolio requests

19 of 365 is a virtual ironing #GIMP

Blawenburg Band (original)
Blawenburg Band (original)
Blawenburg Band (modified)
Blawenburg Band (modified)

My friend Laraine wrote me recently with a request:

“I need help with the attached photo…it is the Blawenburg Band at the Hopewell gazebo, being directed by clarinetist, former member and my dear departed friend, Rich Hill, who died this past spring at 51…

I want to use the photo as the cover of a thank you card, 5 x 7,  to people who contributed to a band scholarship in Rich’s honor. I am choosing and writing the thank you cards; I’m secretary of the band.

But the problem with the photo is that Rich’s clothes looked rumpled… (maybe) shadows from the gazebo cut outs…

I feel the spirit of the photo is just right for the memorial thank you’s. (Do you think so?) But Rich looks rumpled…”

He was a bit rumpled, but that was easy enough to take care of with cloning, burning and dodging tools. I moved on to restoring the gazebo, band members and audience members with the burn dodge tool to bring out the shadows, highlights and midtones after doing some work on the picture overall to improve brightness and contrast. A bit overworked perhaps, but I really enjoyed the challenge. Thanks Laraine!

tags: lemasney, 365, dailypost2011, band, Princeton, Blawenburg, Hopewell, NJ, photo restoration, GIMP, GPL, GNU, Open source, Creative Commons, CC-SA

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18 of 365 is a gift for a friend #GIMP

 

A gift
A gift

 

I recently saw a friend’s very wonderful painting of a rooster, and was inspired to do this as a compliment to it. In GIMP, I used a preexisting silhouette of the bird you see here, which I selected by color and converted to a mask, which I then used to paint into a new transparent layer.

tags: hen, rooster, chicken, egg, 365, dailypost2011, everyday, GNU, GPL, GIMP, photomanipulation, photo, sharing, gift, friend, lemasney, open source, creative commons, cc-sa

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15 of 365 is a nice moment #GIMP

So this is the last of the photos from Alma. There was a lot of water damage, and it was an interesting challenge to correct it. The really fun thing about using the GIMP to do photo-manipulation is how many ways that you can solve a problem. In this case, I used some cloning, but mostly I did a marquee selection of a water stained area all of one color, desaturated that selection, and colorized it to match the rest of the photo’s content, like her skin or his suit, etc.. Thanks for all of your help this week, Alma. I’m going to turn to some other requests now.

tags: photo, photo-manipulation, GIMP, GPL, GNU, open source, Creative commons, CC-SA, sharing, lemasney, 365, postaday2011

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14 of 365 is Alma’s uncle #GIMP

So this is another photo submitted by Alma. Thanks for the project, Alma, it’s really gotten me back into photo-repair.

tags: photo, photo-manipulation, GIMP, GPL, GNU, open source, Creative commons, CC-SA, sharing, lemasney, 365, postaday2011

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13 of 365 is about a graduate. #GIMP

So this is another very helpful photo project from my friend Alma. She asked me to repair the damage to the photo which required the use of the clone tool in GIMP.

tags: photo, photo repair, repair, photo-manipulation, GIMP, GNU, GPL, open source, creative commons, CC-SA, lemasney, 365, postaday2011, daily, practice

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4 of 365 is a disjointed triptych self-portrait

Self portrait in triptych
Self portrait in triptych
Self portrait in triptych
Self portrait in triptych

I decided to use the GIMP to make a disjointed self-portrait. By starting with the base image on the far left, I duplicated the layer twice, then I resized the canvas to three times its original width. I moved the images into three equal positions on the canvas, then on the second and third portions, I began making rectangular selections with the marquee tool of the eyes and other features and copying and pasting as new layers, then rotating, lowering opacity, and otherwise playing with those layers.